Background: Staying the course in turbulent times – Insights on the current state and ways forward for the EU’s climate, energy and finance policy architecture

With the Fit for 55-package, the EU increased the ambition level of its energy and climate targets for 2030. The targets reflect the EU’s commitment towards an energy system transformation - or, in fact, the transformation of the entire ...

Background: Governance capacities in reflexive climate policymaking: the scope, role, and institutional arrangements of policy mix evaluation in the German domestic buildings sector

In this research, we are interested in the governance of the building sector and the role of evaluation climate policy making : the government-mandated processes used to evaluate policy in terms of the actors, organisations and ministries involved in ...

Background: Assessing Climate Policy Instrument Pathways – An Application to the German Light Duty Vehicle Sector

We introduce and test a novel design and assessment framework for climate policy mix pathways and use it to construct and assess alternative policy pathways offering increased ambition of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) abatement in Germany’s light duty vehicle (LDV) ...